The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-09

| never DSeu SNliADieu.
Beside that domestic perturbation an'
home sickness OF those days put the swee
dotAesticity OF to-day. The only cam
hire you now ever sit at is the one kindle'
in stove OF furnace or hearth. Instead o
a hslf.ration Of salt pork, a repast luxu
fiant because partaken of by loving fami
ly circle and in secret confidence. o
now / see who those letters were for, the
letters you, the young soldier, took 81
long in your tent 20 write, and tina
you were so particular to pu
in the mail without any one seeing you
lest you be leased by your comrades. Goo
spared you to get back, and though tho
old people have gone you have home CT
your own construction, aud you often con-
strast those awful absences and flial and
brotherly and lovely heartbreakS with
your present residence which is the dear.
est place you will find this de of Heave n.
The place where your children were born
is the place where you want TO die To
write the figures of 1862 l set up four
crys tals-crystal OF tears. To write the
figures Of 1857 stand up four members
OF your household figures of rosy cheeks
and flaxen hair, if can get them to stand
still long enough.
Contrast also the religious opportunities
of twenty years ago with now. Often on
on the march from Sunday morn till
night, or commanded by officers who con;
sidered the names of God and Christ OF
no use except to swear by. Sometimes
the drumhead the pulpit, and you stand
ing in heat or cold, all the surroundings
of military life having a tendency to make
you reckless. No privacy for prayer or
Bible reading. No sound of church bells
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where you were brought up. Now the
choicest sanctuaries, easy pew, all Chris
tian surroundings, the air full Of God,
and Christ, and Heaven, and doxol-
ogy. Three mountains lifting them
selves into the holy lght-Mouht
Sinai laundering its law, Mount Calvary
Pleading its sacrifice, Mount Plsgah dis
playing the promised land.
Contrast Of National condition: 1852,
spending money by the millions in devas-
tation of property and life; 1SS7, the
finances so reconstructed that alt the
stock CANDLES of Wall street combined
can not m AXE a National panic; Sc, sur
geons setting broken bones, and ampa-
tating gangrcrcl limbs, and studying
gitnshot fractures, and invcutlng easy
ambu ances for the wOunied and dying;
1887, surgeons giving their attention 10
those in casualty of agriculture, of COM
MERGE or mechanic al life, the rushing of
the ambulance through our reefs not
suggesting battle, but quick re-
lief of some one fallel in
peaceful industries; 1882, 81.
900, O0J inhabitant1 in this lant; 1887, S..
100000; 1862, wheat about SOOO,OO bush
els; 1857, the wheat Will be about 3d.
100000 bushels; 1862, Pacific coast five
weeks from the Atlantic; 1887, for three
reasons-Uuion Pacific, Southern Pacific
Northern Pac.fc-oHly seven days across.
Look at the long line of churches, univer-
sites, asylums and houses with VIII Oh
during the last few years this land has
been decorated,
Living soldiers OF the North and South,
take a new and special ordination at this
season of the year, TO garland the sepul-
cheres Of your fallen comrades. Nothing
is too good for their III amorieS. Turn all
the private tombs and the National ceme-
teries into gardens. We dead of Malvern
Hill, and Cold Harbor, and Murfreesb oro,
and Manassas Junction, and Cumberland
Gap, and field hospital, receive these
floral offerings Of the living soldiers.
"But they shall come again, all the
dead troops. We sometimes talk about
earthly military reviews, such as took
place in Paris in the time of Marshal Ney,
III London in the time of Wellington, and
IN our own land, but what tame things
compared with the final review, when all
the armies of the ages shall pass for d.
vine and angelic inspection. st. John
says the armies of Heaven ride on white
horses, and l don't know but many Of the
old cavalry horses of earthly battle, that
were wound ed and worn out in service,
may have resurrection. 1t would be only
fair that, raised up and ennobled, they
would be resurrected for the grand re-
view Of the Judgment Day. 1t would not
take any more power to reconstruct their
bodies than to reconstruct ours, and
/ should he very glad 10
see them among the white
horses of Apccalyptic vision. Hark to
the trumpet blast, the reveille of the last
judgment They come up-all the armies
of all lands and all centuries, on which
ever side they fought, whether for free
dom or despotism, for the right or the
wrong. They come! They comet Darius,
al d Cyrus, and Sennacherib and Joshua,
and David, leading forth the armies of
Scrip.ural times; Hannibal AMI Hamilcar
lie aiding forth the Carthagenians; Victor
armies of the Italians; Tamerlane and
Ghcngis Kahn followed by the armies Of
Asia; Gustavus AdolDhus, and Ptolemy
Philopater, and XerXes, and Al
exander, and Semiramis, and Wash.
ington, leading battalion after bat
talon. The dead American armies OF
1776 and 1912 and 1,OOO, 900 of Northern and
Southern dead in our civil war-they
m 4.
600, coo fallen i'll Napoleonlc battles; the IL,
10000 Germans fallen in the Thirty Years
war; the $1,000, 600 fallen in the war un.
der Sosostris; the 20,00) 900 fallen in the
wars of Justinian: the $4,000, 600 fallen in
Jewish wars; the so 00J,0 900 fallen in the
wars with Saracens and Turks; the 3d..
10000 900 estimated to have fallen in bat
tle-cnough, according to one statistician,
if they stood four abreast, to reach clear
around the earth Al? times.
But we shall have time to see them pass
in review before the throne of judgment,
the cavalrymen, the artillerymen, the
spearmen, the infantry, the sharpshooters,
the gunners, the sapp ers, the miners, the
archers,- the skirmishers, men of all
coiors, of all epaulets, of all weaponry,
of all countries. Let the earth be es-
pecially balanced to bear their tread.
Forward! Forward Let the orchest ira
OF the Heavenly galleries play the grand
march, joined by all the tifers, drummers
and military bands that ever sounled
victory or defeat at Kvlau or Borobino,
Marathon or Thermopy le, Bunker Hill
or Y orktown, Solferino or Balaklava,
Sedan or Gettysburg, from the time
when Joshua halted astronomy
above Gbbon and Ajslon till the last
man surrendered to Garnet Wolsely al
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